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Strike on key Iranian gas field is a new phase of the war. Trump blames Israel.

The widening attacks on energy infrastructure in the Middle East have created a rift between the White House and its Gulf allies while increasing fears of a global recession.Israel’s targeting of t...

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The GOP is dismissing Joe Kent. They might come to regret it.

When Joe Kent resigned as the U.S.’s top counterterrorism official over dissatisfaction with the Iran war, President Donald Trump and much of the establishment GOP shrugged him off as a nobody who ...

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Republicans balk at going it alone on Iran war funding

Congressional Republicans are confronting serious doubts they can pass Iran war funding on their own, especially as the potential price tag balloons into the hundreds of billions of dollars.The alt...

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Trump administration may unsanction some Iranian oil as energy prices spike, Bessent says

The Trump administration may suspend sanctions on Iranian oil already at sea in a bid to clamp down on energy prices that have shot up amid the war in the Middle East, Treasury Secretary Scott Bess...

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Congress braces for $200B Iran war request

The Pentagon's emerging plan to seek $200 billion in additional spending to finance President Donald Trump’s military campaign against Iran will intensify an already toxic partisan fight over the w...

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The conservative woman cracking down on conservative women

With the SAVE America Act before the Senate, a bill that could radically transform elections, Cleta Mitchell is approaching the apex of her influence. At the same time, the “election integrity” mov...

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DeSantis rejects gas tax pause, warns of Cuba 'exodus' amid global turmoil

TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Gov. Ron DeSantis reacted Thursday to the reverberations of President Donald Trump’s foreign policy on Florida, rejecting a gas tax pause amid the Middle East war and warning...

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Trump lauds Japan’s promise, however vague, to help with Iran

Japan’s prime minister came to the White House on Thursday and delivered exactly what President Donald Trump has been looking for: a promise to join a U.S.-led coalition to stabilize shipping traff...

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There Will Be No Post-Presidential Peace For Donald Trump

Donald Trump spent the first year of his second term trying to signal his strength, his impunity, and his permanence in American public life. When House Republicans gathered at the Kennedy Center i...

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Mullin’s nomination to be DHS chief advances out of committee

The Senate Homeland Security Committee voted Thursday to advance Sen. Markwayne Mullin’s nomination to be the next Homeland Security secretary, after the Oklahoma lawmaker clashed with committee Ch...

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Political operatives with Trump ties raked in millions of dollars in commissions from DHS ad campaign

Two companies with ties to veteran political operatives received at least $23 million in commissions for their role in the controversial Department of Homeland Security ad campaign that helped lead...

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Trump is poised to take Iran’s Kharg Island. Here’s what could unfold next.

A tiny Iranian island responsible for virtually all of the country’s oil exports is in President Donald Trump’s crosshairs.Trump began attacking Kharg Island, the 5-mile strip of land that nearly a...

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Democrats say Bondi won't commit to testifying in House Epstein investigation

House Democrats say Attorney General Pam Bondi is attempting to evade a congressional subpoena to testify about the Justice Department’s handling of the Jeffery Epstein case.Democrats on the House ...

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California lawmakers push to strip Cesar Chavez’s name from state holiday

SACRAMENTO, California — California Latino legislative leaders are pushing to strip Cesar Chavez’s name from the official state holiday honoring his birthday following the sexual abuse allegations ...

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Tulsi Gabbard walks tightrope to avoid undercutting Trump on Iran

Tulsi Gabbard did the one thing Wednesday that she really needed to do: avoid undercutting President Donald Trump's war in Iran under oath.Testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee, the o...

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Estonia ‘ready to talk’ on Strait of Hormuz backup

Estonia’s defense minister is open to helping the United States in its war with Iran.In an interview Tuesday evening, minister Hanno Pevkur said he was meeting with U.S. officials, including deputy...

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The Tech CEO ‘Making No Apologies for the Work With ICE’

On Monday, in a letter to shareholders announcing $476 million of profit in the third quarter of the year, Palantir CEO Alex Karp quoted the Irish poet W.B. Yeats: “Things fall apart; the center ca...

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Trump’s Economy Is Looking More and More Like Saudi Arabia’s

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Like Donald Trump, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman understands the power of personal branding. So you can’t go anywhere in the Saudi capital without seeing the face of the m...

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MAHA Is Embracing Elizabeth Holmes. Here’s Why.

The Make America Healthy Again movement may have found its next cause: justice for Theranos founder and convicted fraudster Elizabeth Holmes.On Oct. 31, mommy-blogger-turned-MAHA-influencer Jessica...

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This Comedian Just Showed Democrats How to Solve Their Messaging Problems

“There’s something about the term ‘sex worker’ that just feels belabored,” Gianmarco Soresi tells me. “It’s longer than hooker or prostitute.”Perhaps unsurprisingly, this subject never came up whil...

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Jeff Boyd on Cops, Teachers, and Chicago

Novelist Jeff Boyd joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to talk about his new work of literary crime fiction, Hard Times, which is set in Chicago, where he lived previously. The h...

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